The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Carney's Sham Majority – Time for Poilievre to Go on the Attack

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.

00:00:06.520 If you remember, our last federal election in Canada was in April of 2025.

00:00:13.920 That's why it's really surreal now in April 2026 to see this.

00:00:20.860 Liberal MP Ryan Turnbull said,

00:00:23.680 It's official. Our prime minister and liberal government has earned a majority.

00:00:29.060 Now, usually you would see this on election night, like the actual election night during

00:00:35.620 the official federal election.

00:00:37.600 But no, we are seeing the Liberals secure a majority almost an entire year later because

00:00:44.500 of technically these by-elections, but really because of all of the floor crossings that

00:00:50.300 have happened.

00:00:51.000 Check out this clip and then we're going to discuss in a second.

00:00:53.540 We are ready to call a rioting in Toronto, which means we are ready to make the call.

00:01:09.900 The CBC News decision desk projects a Liberal majority government.

00:01:15.720 Less than a year after the last election, Prime Minister Carney has won his majority,

00:01:20.760 bringing the Liberals their first majority since 2019. Now, none of these by-elections,

00:01:26.500 if you know, flipped. It wasn't like one of these ridings was held by an NDP or the Bloc or

00:01:32.340 Conservative and somebody stepped down and then the Liberals earned a majority by winning the

00:01:37.140 seats in by-elections. All three of these by-elections in University Rosedale, Scarborough

00:01:42.180 Southwest, and Terrebonne were all Liberal-held seats. Now, the Terrebonne one was only won by

00:01:48.000 the Liberal candidate by one vote, and now they won it by, I think, like 1,500 votes this time,

00:01:52.480 which is still pretty slim for the size of a Canadian riding. It was within a couple points

00:01:57.160 or so. You know, that's just, you know, them's the dice. If you have an election a year after

00:02:02.500 the last one, you're probably going to have either the party that won it win it by two more,

00:02:06.580 or the party that didn't win it is going to win it by two. But all these ridings are default

00:02:12.120 Liberal ridings, at least since the last election, that were won by the Liberals again. You'll

00:02:17.460 remember, on election night back in 2025, the Liberals were several seats short of actually

00:02:22.920 getting a majority government. They got that majority because first Chris Dontremont, then

00:02:28.380 Michael Ma, then Matt Genreux, then Laurie Idlout, and then Marilyn Gladju all crossed the floor.

00:02:35.760 This is obviously terrible for Canadian democracy. Now, this doesn't mean your votes don't count and

00:02:42.400 whatnot. The vast majority of people still have the Member of Parliament that they voted for,

00:02:47.100 but this is going to lower a lot of people's confidence in our democratic system. It feels

00:02:54.140 like, well, there is like a less, there's around a one or 2% chance that your MP is just going to

00:02:59.840 say, eh, I know you voted for me to represent this list of issues, but I am now going to not just

00:03:06.140 represent a different list of issues. A lot of these people aren't even thinking that far.

00:03:10.580 They're just going to frivolously vote for whatever the government wants because they

00:03:15.280 wanted the bigger paycheck from being a higher position in parliament or they wanted the

00:03:20.700 recognition of being part of the government or they had some petty dispute with somebody inside

00:03:25.040 the conservative party and so they cross the floor like marilyn glad you did to prove no point but i

00:03:31.220 guess she feels like she's proving a point but isn't that great all the people of sarnia lambton

00:03:35.740 now do not have a member of parliament because marilyn glad you wanted to prove something to

00:03:42.280 pure poly of in the conservatives apparently is the inside story unless you truly think that like 0.72

00:03:48.160 she had this road to damascus moment but it's more of i guess a road to toronto moment where 1.00

00:03:54.200 she just decided that liberalism is what she wants to represent and that you know screw all of her

00:03:58.860 old socially conservative culturally conservative and fiscally conservative views all the all she's

00:04:04.980 now reversed all of her criticisms apparently of the liberals she's going to denounce herself as

00:04:09.560 wrong. But we need to talk about what this is going to mean for Canada going forward,

00:04:15.040 the abysmal coverage of all this by the mainstream media, and what the Conservative Party has to do

00:04:21.200 to fix this. Because although this is in part Mark Carney helping to corrupt democracy

00:04:27.940 by just treating MPs like just tradable commodities, this is on the Conservatives too

00:04:34.780 to make sure they have real nominations, they no longer appoint candidates, and those who did win

00:04:41.140 a nomination still have to go through another nomination at least every couple of election

00:04:46.160 cycles. Because the vast, the thing that links a lot of the conservative MP candidates together

00:04:51.800 who ended up crossing the floor is they were appointed, or it had been a very long time since

00:04:57.020 they had gone through a nomination, and they started to not care what the base of the party

00:05:01.520 thinks. They don't really care what their constituents think. They were automatically

00:05:04.540 renominated every single time. So what do I care about what the average individual in my writing

00:05:10.180 thinks? I don't need them to win office. But let's just get into some of these crazy clips from the

00:05:17.740 media in just a second here. The way the media cover this is truly gross. They are almost acting

00:05:25.260 celebratory, happy that this happened when they're supposed to be completely neutral. And of course,

00:05:30.180 a lot of this starts falling down on Pierre Polyev being bad. Somehow this all means that

00:05:35.080 Pierre Polyev is bad. Now, is Pierre Polyev perfect? Is he close to perfect? These are

00:05:40.900 Canadian politicians. No one's close to perfect. I like some of the things that Polyev does.

00:05:46.280 I don't like some of the things he does. I can call balls and strikes. But the media always

00:05:52.360 makes floor crossings or anything that the liberals do. A positive about Carney and a

00:05:58.320 negative about Polyev, whether the evidence lines up or not. Something could have, the liberals could

00:06:02.780 mess something up, and the media will still find a through line on how this has something to do with

00:06:08.900 pure Polyev not being helpful enough to the government. But if Polyev is helpful to the

00:06:12.820 government, and then Carney uses Polyev being cooperative as an excuse to go and try and wine 0.51

00:06:19.200 and dine his MPs to cross, well, now this proves that Polyev is just a mean, nasty man, even though

00:06:24.500 he was trying to be as cooperative as possible over the past few months but check out this clip

00:06:30.580 from the CBC last night. You like the idea of time for the conservatives but it's a group of

00:06:37.640 people who many of whom a year ago thought that they might be cabinet ministers that they might

00:06:43.580 be pushing forward their own agenda so now not doing that and now potentially I mean we'll see

00:06:50.260 whether they get a majority, whether it holds for three years, all those ifs.

00:06:54.700 But now they're in a different scenario where they have to sit there a little bit longer.

00:06:59.140 Potentially. Potentially.

00:07:00.300 I also know a lot of conservatives that are more scared of going to the polls right now.

00:07:04.220 Oh, for sure.

00:07:05.140 If the government fell and we're into an election, there's a lot of seats that people would feel vulnerable in.

00:07:10.600 By the way, guys, this is such a misread of by-elections.

00:07:13.580 guys, by elections that are obviously going to be won by one party and not another ends up usually

00:07:20.040 swinging heavily in favor of the party that already usually holds the riding. These are

00:07:26.060 ridings that the liberals won by over 60% of the vote, the two GTA ones. And then the terrible in

00:07:31.580 riding was super close. Now, the conservative vote collapsed, but conservative voters in that

00:07:36.620 riding know the conservative party only gets in like the mid-teens, like 14% of the vote, 16% of

00:07:41.660 the vote many of them probably voted for the bloc or for the liberals if they don't like the bloc

00:07:46.000 you can't really read anything into that riding and then when you look at the two gta ridings that

00:07:50.640 the liberals usually win with like 65 of the vote and this time they won the riding with 72 of the

00:07:56.140 vote or 73 or 67 or like whatever it doesn't mean anything because of course the conservatives

00:08:03.460 didn't turn out they had no chance of winning now i actually wish the conservative party would take

00:08:07.660 these writings more seriously they know they're not going to win but put up a really this sounds

00:08:12.580 kind of silly the way i'm about to say it run a fun candidate run like a fun radio show host an

00:08:19.520 eccentric an eccentric attention getter as a candidate especially in a gta riding like

00:08:25.060 university rosedale where most people live in apartment buildings you're you're not going to

00:08:29.180 be able to put up a lot of lawn signs so run somebody who just has such a magnetic personality

00:08:34.620 that they're going to be able to go on all the radio shows,

00:08:36.900 they're going to do a podcast tour,

00:08:38.160 they're going to be standing outside the train system,

00:08:42.840 pumping hands with voters and talking to them about what they want to do.

00:08:45.880 Run that guy.

00:08:46.960 I think the Conservatives ended up running like a consultant in Scarborough Southwest,

00:08:50.740 something like that, some realtor,

00:08:52.520 and then an insurance broker in University Rosedale.

00:08:55.260 It's like, why?

00:08:57.160 They weren't going to win, so run somebody fun.

00:08:59.580 Run someone super interesting.

00:09:00.940 somebody who might actually want to run in a more winnable riding next time but they're kind of

00:09:05.780 putting their personality on display in this riding and showing that they can throw punches

00:09:09.920 at the liberals even if they are dead on arrival because when you do that you actually might be

00:09:14.300 able to make the riding a bit more competitive in that by-election not winning it probably still

00:09:18.360 losing by 20 points but it will look better but overall though the liberals won these ridings

00:09:23.780 with crazy vote margins because of course they were going to win now in Surrey Cloverdale last

00:09:29.260 election, you had Tamara Jensen beating a Liberal for the riding in a by-election.

00:09:38.040 That was previously a Liberal had held the riding, John Aldeg. He dropped out to run for the BCNDP

00:09:44.320 in the provincial election. He actually got beat in that provincial election by Harmon Bangu for

00:09:48.660 Langley Abbotsford, so it was not a good idea for him to resign to run provincially. But when the

00:09:53.020 Liberals then tried to replace John Aldeg, I'm not sure if he ran again or somebody else,

00:09:58.820 Tamara Jensen, who again, remember, had lost that riding last election to John Aldegg,

00:10:05.000 then retook it from the Liberals, but she won by literally 50 points.

00:10:09.420 The margin between her vote and the Trudeau Liberal at the time was 50 points.

00:10:14.520 You can read into that result because it's an actual seat change.

00:10:18.220 You can't read into the Liberals already holding a riding with a massive margin

00:10:22.520 and then winning the riding in a by-election that nobody really cares about

00:10:26.320 by an even bigger margin. A lot of people only vote in places like University Rosedale in a

00:10:31.560 federal election, not because they expect the conservative locally to win, but they're voting

00:10:36.280 for the conservatives because they like Polyev or they like the conservative party in general,

00:10:40.780 and they're getting out there in solidarity to support the conservative party. But anyways,

00:10:45.960 let's get back to this clip. I just find this, the implication here is the idea that, hmm,

00:10:51.840 you're sitting there as a conservative and you don't have a cabinet position because the

00:10:55.500 conservatives don't have uh control of the government oh well you should think about you

00:10:59.860 know you know maybe cross the floor or getting rid of pure polyev or something like this when

00:11:04.520 there's not enough evidence to come to any of these conclusions uh so there it is this like

00:11:08.960 okay it's a liberal majority government that's terrible but well actually wait a second we get

00:11:13.100 to breathe a little bit and actually figure out what is the what is the path forward here and to

00:11:17.720 the point i said before and i'll say again time is the only thing right now strongly on polyev's

00:11:23.380 He has to figure it out. He has to use the timer appropriately and see where this goes. You know, there's lots of chatter last week of more MPs crossing. I've seen lots of chatter about letters, the Reform Act, where you can remove a leader about people collecting signatures.

00:11:41.000 I've not actually heard from any MPs or any Conservatives that that's actually happening.

00:11:46.580 It is something when a party gets a majority government, there's got to be some reflection here.

00:11:51.600 There's got to be some, you know, caucuses Wednesday.

00:11:53.760 It'll be interesting what is discussed at that point.

00:11:56.540 But, you know, we are, what, how many weeks are left in this session of the House?

00:12:00.500 Seven, eight, and then we have the summer break.

00:12:02.860 I think we're going to...

00:12:03.480 Now, remember, Fred DeLore here is, in fact, the Conservative on the CBC panel. 0.68

00:12:08.340 And of course, someone on the CBC panel, it doesn't really matter if it's a conservative or not, because they're all the liberal on the CBC panel, just kind of throwing out that maybe there could be something to do with the Reform Act, which would allow the Conservative Party MPs to just throw Polyev out. 0.87

00:12:24.160 Like, why is this on the table to discuss? Now, I have criticisms of Polyev. I have praises of Polyev. I think that he's done a really good job on certain things in the past that I think that he's actually kind of fallen down on a little bit these days. And he could regain some of his strength on issues if he makes, you know, changes with the suggestions that I would I would give or other people would give.

00:12:44.060 But what has he really done that lost all these MPs, that caused Carney to be able to secure a majority government using petty office seekers like Chris Dontremont, CCP agents like Michael Ma, anti-pipeline land back people like Laurie Idlout, Matt Jenneru, who's been lying about what riding he lives in so he can be the Edmonton Riverbend MP, even though he lives where I am right now in Victoria.

00:13:11.000 we have Marilyn Gladju who needs to be the corpse at every funeral and bride at every wedding who

00:13:15.960 probably crossed the floor just for attention seeking reasons tell me how this has anything

00:13:20.160 to do with Polyev people keep saying well isn't there any internal reflections going on how about

00:13:25.280 one of the floor crossers comes out and explains why Polyev is bad and why he forced them to leave 0.91

00:13:32.280 they don't explain it because probably it's not true probably it's the petty reasons is the why 1.00

00:13:39.340 they left and if they actually told people what happened they would look really bad in the midst

00:13:43.880 of the story i get through that i think polyev is going to have to really map something out and come

00:13:49.380 back in the fall and i said the same thing last summer we had to map something out last summer

00:13:53.520 there is it he's got to do something he's got to show something and keep people comfortable that he

00:13:59.360 does have a plan yeah i i get what is this commentary polyev needs to go away and do

00:14:05.100 something, or say something, or prove something. What something? And I can even say the something

00:14:10.420 that Polyev should do, because I've been saying it for a while. The Conservative Party needs a

00:14:15.220 harder, older platform, a big tax cut across the board. Because what Mark Carney just did today

00:14:23.020 was smart. He took Polyev's suggestion to remove the gas taxes, and he removed part of them. Now,

00:14:29.280 Polyev's plan would remove it by 25, would reduce current gas prices by 25 cents a liter

00:14:34.560 on average. And what Carney is doing is going to reduce it by 10. Now, Carney is going to get the

00:14:40.540 credit for reducing it. So it was a good suggestion by Polyev and Carney's trying to make it its own

00:14:44.740 thing. But the problem is, is that right now Polyev is sometimes offering or suggesting that

00:14:50.500 the liberals do only small things. Now, there's no coincidence that Carney did it after he secured

00:14:55.560 his majority because he didn't want to acknowledge that Polyev had a good idea before he got the

00:14:59.440 majority government. But whatever, he's now done it. But what are you going to do now as Pierre

00:15:04.160 Polyev? You can't just say, oh, well, they should cut the gas taxes even more, because now we're

00:15:09.440 playing Price is Right, and you never want to do Price is Right politics. You want to say, hey,

00:15:13.620 let's reduce taxes, income taxes, corporate taxes, and the GST across the board by a large percentage.

00:15:19.600 Take a point off the GST, reduce all other taxes across the board by 20%.

00:15:24.860 Run on that, because guess what?

00:15:27.360 Carney will never try and do that, because he's a liberal.

00:15:30.720 The problem with asking him to do something more attainable, like reduce the gas tax,

00:15:35.160 is that he might do it, and then you end up sitting there running on an agenda item that

00:15:40.500 wasn't really that remarkable in the first place, and he's just stolen it from you.

00:15:44.880 That was the problem with running against the carbon tax only in 2025.

00:15:49.600 Well, Carney just adjusted it down and took away your platform from you, because Carney is smart at political maneuvering. Now, he's not very good at political rhetoric. Now, he can be very incompetent when it comes to policy. He hasn't done anything particularly good yet. Literally, the only two things that he did well was just taking Polyev's idea to get rid of the consumer carbon tax and reduce the gas taxes, although he's found ways of increasing taxes in other ways.

00:16:14.860 he's done a little bit of some progress on immigration but it's still way too high

00:16:19.260 other than that he's been pretty bad the problem though is that if you're the conservatives and

00:16:23.900 you're not running on a big enough agenda a big or bold enough platform it doesn't motivate people

00:16:29.180 to show up when at best you sound like you're maybe proposing a 20 percent improvement on how

00:16:34.540 things are currently done you should basically only ever be running to improve things 100 percent

00:16:40.140 200%. Everything should be getting just massively better if you become prime minister. And I think

00:16:45.820 the conservative party has been too obsessed with not rocking the boat too much and simply

00:16:51.080 tinkering around the edges of policy. I think Polioff is a political talent. And I think the

00:16:56.620 people who advise him tend to advise timidity, mildness, and that doesn't really jibe with

00:17:03.480 here Polioff's personality. He's a big personality and should be running on big things. But at times,

00:17:08.940 I think that his own staff end up basically telling him to run like he's Aaron O'Toole or

00:17:13.440 run like he's Andrew Scheer. Now, if Polly became prime minister, I think he would improve things

00:17:17.880 massively. But the way he talks indicates the person who doesn't follow politics that much,

00:17:21.960 that it's not going to be that much different than what Mark Carney would be doing. But I'll

00:17:26.560 finish this up and then we'll get to some other stuff. I agree with you that time is on his side.

00:17:31.080 I just don't know how many times you can ask for time to come up with a plan. Do you know what I

00:17:35.860 mean i don't know and i agree i don't i don't have a list of people we talked about before though

00:17:40.780 about this being a wartime prime minister right like we people are really focused in on the

00:17:44.560 certain issues and the prime minister has to deliver with this with what he's given if he

00:17:48.360 has a majority he's got to deliver stuff so like you know 15 months ago pierre polyev had a 25 point

00:17:53.260 lead since then he's lost a national election he's lost his own seat and mark herney i hate this

00:17:57.860 talking point okay when we had rosemary barton there again just throwing darts at polyev implying

00:18:02.760 that you know how how long with no to plan until you know you know something happened and then you

00:18:08.100 have david cochran who then comes in here i had to reverse this a little bit just so i could hear

00:18:12.780 that again i i just i find all this snideness from the media infuriating now criticize polyev

00:18:20.500 do that sure come up with actual concrete criticisms i can the conservative party needs

00:18:27.120 real nominations they need to run on a boulder platform across all the issues social fiscal

00:18:32.280 uh cultural but the thing is the media doesn't agree with my analysis that they need to be more

00:18:38.200 conservative they need bolder plans to get people out so they just stick to this vague thing that

00:18:42.480 he somehow just vaguely done something wrong and they can't really name it because you know they

00:18:48.900 can't actually they don't have any good criticisms for him they're just simply wanting to throw vague

00:18:52.820 darts since then he's lost the national election he's lost his own seat and mark hardy is going to

00:18:57.200 get a majority largely on the strength of defections from pure poly of scott now again it's

00:19:01.820 it's the constant just implication that it's polyos false for losing mp candidates not them

00:19:08.980 betraying their own constituents the media never digs down that rabbit hole about how much of a

00:19:14.780 betrayal this is to the voters of these areas and then he says he lost a 25 lead the lead was never

00:19:20.440 25 guys i hate this revisionist history the lead that the conservatives had in 2024 and

00:19:27.040 December was never 25%. It was maybe 15. It was 13. At highest, it was 18. The thing is that the

00:19:35.400 media likes to cite the highest lead the conservatives ever had to make it look like,

00:19:39.400 oh, and Paulie, I felt all the way down here. Do you actually know the pollster that said 25%

00:19:43.260 for the conservatives? It was ECOS. Now, you might be sitting there thinking, well, that's weird.

00:19:48.500 Isn't ECOS the pollster that always says the liberals are leading by like 20 points these

00:19:52.940 days or 15 points or 17 points when Carney first became prime minister. And that clearly wasn't

00:19:57.840 true based on what happened on election day. Yes, but it's a propaganda pollster. So when

00:20:03.580 that propaganda pollster needed to give the liberal party more ammunition to get rid of

00:20:08.900 Justin Trudeau, well, suddenly ECOS, which had been showing milder leads for the conservative

00:20:14.180 party than the other pollsters up to that point, suddenly shoots up and says, oh, oh,

00:20:18.020 Polly of the conservatives are 25 percent ahead. But I hate how this gets rolled into this

00:20:22.280 narrative, that Pauliev blew this just incredibly large lead. The lead wasn't that big. What

00:20:29.500 happened was that conservatives were excited to vote because, hey, let's get rid of Trudeau,

00:20:35.340 and the liberals were like, oh my goodness, we have to run with Trudeau as our leader? So they

00:20:39.160 weren't answering the polls as much. I apply the same logic now. The liberal leads are exaggerated

00:20:44.080 now because, of course, conservatives are not in government, and they don't have all the exciting 1.00

00:20:49.160 things happening for them with floor crossers and whatnot. So they're less likely to pick up 1.00

00:20:53.340 the phone and answer a poll or answer an online poll. But the liberals are. So their lead is

00:20:57.920 currently exaggerated the way that the conservative lead became exaggerated in December 24.

00:21:03.400 Liberals, as abacus data says right now, probably leading five to eight points. It's between that

00:21:09.360 range right now. That's the realistic lead for the liberals. That would be a majority.

00:21:13.060 Back in 24, now everyone hated Trudeau's guts. And so I believe that the conservatives weren't

00:21:18.700 double digits but they weren't 25 but again they repeat this because it makes poly of look worse

00:21:25.020 if you cite this unrealistically high number and show how far he has fallen

00:21:29.460 right like that is a track record i know he sent letters to a shadow cabinet saying justify your

00:21:36.100 role and this may be a reason marilyn gladu crossed the floor i think you were confirming

00:21:39.600 that on friday on the show uh that doesn't even make sense she wasn't she wasn't a cabinet minister

00:21:44.140 She wasn't a shadow cabinet minister, I believe.

00:21:46.560 I don't think she had any big role.

00:21:48.540 So saying that you have to justify your role would cause Marilyn Gladju to relieve is insane

00:21:53.640 because she didn't have a big role at that point.

00:21:56.140 If anything, she would have been someone who should, in theory, be excited that other people 1.00

00:22:00.080 are going to have to justify their roles because maybe she can move up to the front bench 1.00

00:22:04.000 and be able to get a big shadow cabinet job. 1.00

00:22:07.460 Fred, but a year and a half ago, we were talking about he needs a finance minister.

00:22:13.080 he needs this now it's he needs time yeah okay yeah apparently again the media is trying to turn

00:22:19.480 this into a funeral for a pure polyev uh again i need to i need to highlight this i find all these

00:22:25.240 clips just obnoxious of how the media will turn again the corruption of democracy doesn't mean

00:22:31.160 your votes don't actually count the vast majority of people have the mp that they voted for but it

00:22:35.320 is something that undermines the way our system is supposed to work when people just kind of take

00:22:40.760 their voters votes as a mere suggestion and not actually like a promise that i'm promising you

00:22:47.640 that i'm going to represent your views in government if you got into government i would

00:22:51.620 say even as a liberal if you were part of the government right now and you're you are a liberal

00:22:56.220 mp and your views kind of changed to being more conservative i would say you actually still have

00:23:00.500 a duty to vote for the liberal government unless you're crossing the floor because of a massive

00:23:05.280 corruption scandal and you can't be part of this anymore you have a duty to vote for the things

00:23:09.720 that you were elected to do you can't just be like oh i had a road to toronto moment so i'm

00:23:15.260 leaving and joining the liberals oh i i'm joining the conservatives like leon alice love did back

00:23:20.360 in like 2018 oh i don't like him anymore i'm leaving i didn't get a good enough gig i'm leaving

00:23:25.080 and joining the conservatives no you weren't elected to do that but we're not going to actually

00:23:29.180 investigate that very big issue that's plaguing our politics right now we're just going to simply

00:23:34.640 throw darts at polio what's your number one job when you're a political leader to win when you

00:23:39.520 don't win your job is inherently and constantly at risk and when you lost an election you're

00:23:44.800 supposed to win lost your own riding now you're losing four caucus members to the sitting

00:23:49.920 government and in the in the process losing majority control the house of commons none of

00:23:54.800 that is good for you he does have that large endorsement of the party members at his party

00:23:59.680 convention just a few short months ago um so he's got that to stand by but he has to stop the

00:24:06.280 bleeding and he has to give conservatives and then canadians in that order reason to believe

00:24:12.160 that he's the right guy that he can win and that the losing is behind him now the thing is that

00:24:19.500 actually it was bad when obviously polyab didn't win the 25 election and lost his own riding

00:24:24.700 now i would say that the thing the conservative party needs to do is fire everyone associated

00:24:29.620 with that. I know there are individuals who were in charge of overseeing Polyev's rioting who are

00:24:35.300 still around in the offices. People who knew about this stuff, who stood by when nominations were not

00:24:42.060 being done properly. You have Jenny Byrne and Jeremy Litkey still around. Why? I have no clue.

00:24:48.240 You have other people who were just awful organizers in the different provinces who still

00:24:51.680 have jobs. That needs to be fixed. Those are actual, I'm coming up with real substantive

00:24:56.720 issues that can be fixed. People associated with the failure should go. But we're going to try and

00:25:00.980 just put it all at Pierre Polyev's feet and act like everyone who's crossing the floor is again

00:25:05.900 saying something about himself. All the other things like these by-elections are another loss

00:25:12.240 for Polyev. They're a loss for Polyev. They're safe. Two of them are safe liberal seats and the

00:25:16.920 other one is a battleground between the bloc and the liberals. This doesn't say anything about

00:25:20.860 anything. I'm sorry. I know the media wants to read into it. There's just nothing to read into

00:25:25.580 it. I'm sorry. Like, I'm sorry that they don't have a reason to attack Polyev. But I just want

00:25:30.540 to jump to this. Now, I will actually give, again, Carney is playing good politics now

00:25:34.940 with the gas tax thing. He's trying to take another tool, another club away from Polyev by at least

00:25:40.560 not even half doing the idea, like a third doing the idea. A little bit more than 30%

00:25:45.460 of the tax reduction that Polyev was proposing is being implemented by Carney. Now, there,

00:25:51.420 this is a great way of getting a little small victory on the board for them, reducing gas taxes

00:25:55.640 by a bit, although they should just remove all of them because gas taxes are just like massive,

00:26:00.600 gas is massively inflated right now because they were in Iran. But they're doing a little bit of a

00:26:04.920 thing to take this issue away from Polyev. Now Polyev needs to understand now, needs to pivot

00:26:10.400 to a big across the board income tax cut. I wouldn't declare it this week because it would

00:26:15.920 look like the last shriek on the retreat. I would do it in the coming months or the summer,

00:26:20.680 roll out like we are at 1BC. We have the 25% plan at 1BC, 25% reductions in income taxes,

00:26:29.540 corporate taxes, take two points off the PST, reduce administrators by 25%, reduce the number

00:26:35.260 of ministries by 25%, like Javier Mele, reduce regulations by 25%, a simple but bold plan to do

00:26:42.480 economic reform. And then do the same thing when it comes to cultural and social issues. Take a

00:26:47.760 big stance that's simple but everyone knows that it would be a massive change a first year a first

00:26:54.220 time offense for fentanyl dealing that's a 10-year sentence or five-year sentence have a massive 0.99

00:26:58.780 punishment for drug dealers you'll actually start to win especially asian communities way more

00:27:03.720 because those people their number one issue tends to be drugs run on a soft pro-life platform because

00:27:09.720 as my friend chris the great canadian bagel pointed out when i was on his channel we did a

00:27:15.320 video together about BC polling, he pointed out the problem when you don't run pro-life is all

00:27:20.580 the pro-life voters don't really have a reason to vote for you anymore. And their second top issue

00:27:25.060 might be one that they actually lean to the liberals on. So if you take away their top issue

00:27:29.220 being pro-life from them, they're no longer voting for that because none of the parties are running

00:27:33.200 pro-life. So, well, now maybe their next big issue is their pension and they trust the liberals more

00:27:39.360 of beefing up their pension benefits. That's the problem when you don't run conservative.

00:27:44.260 of. You're not running on the thing that people want enough, and so they drop down to their second

00:27:49.260 or their third biggest issue, and those might be issues that the liberals win them over on.

00:27:54.480 Voters are weird. Voters don't just say, I'm a conservative conservative who believes conservative

00:27:58.780 things on everything. People have views that would fall into the different parties' baskets.

00:28:03.920 If you believe in healthcare, you might be voting for the NDP because they are the healthcare party

00:28:09.040 that just talks about jamming more money into the healthcare system regardless of it's being used

00:28:13.340 right. That's if you care about health care, you will be voting NDP, even if every issue after that

00:28:19.180 in terms of your hierarchy of values might be conservative, technically, technically, you want

00:28:23.800 lower taxes. But you also like health care. So you vote NDP because they're the health care party.

00:28:28.720 Now, I know this video is a little bit disorganized, but I'm just trying to put a lot of

00:28:32.880 thoughts out there for people to kind of chew on in the aftermath of this. I don't think these

00:28:37.380 by-elections say much about Polyev. But if they if but if people are saying they somehow say

00:28:42.520 I will reject that, but say that overall there's still improvements that could be made. It has

00:28:48.440 nothing to do with these three by-elections, but these have been things hanging in the background

00:28:52.880 that I've been saying a lot over time that should be fixed anyways. It's not because all the floor

00:28:58.140 crossers are his fault. I don't think any of them are his fault. It doesn't mean the by-elections 0.55

00:29:01.840 are his fault. It doesn't mean a lot of the other things are his fault. But we can do two things at

00:29:07.540 ones. The media is entirely wrong. And there are still improvements that can be made inside the

00:29:12.860 conservative camp. But here is Carney now taking away the gas tax issue. We all know that because

00:29:18.460 of the war with Iran, fuel prices have increased sharply around the world, including right here

00:29:24.260 in Canada. So we're taking more action to help build that bridge over short-term pressure.

00:29:31.740 With the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Natural Resources, we're announcing today

00:29:35.660 that Canada's new government will temporarily suspend the federal fuel excise tax from next

00:29:42.640 Monday until Labor Day. We're also removing the fuel excise tax on aviation fuels. This will

00:29:51.060 remove up to 10 cents per litre on gasoline and 4 cents per litre on diesel fuel. And again,

00:29:58.260 this is a weaker promise than what Kapaliev was pushing for. This is a weaker thing for him to

00:30:02.720 be doing but the problem is the conservatives should not get wrapped up in trying to say this

00:30:06.980 isn't enough because most Canadians will just say well he did give me something so I'm not unhappy

00:30:11.340 with him and people aren't going to get angry thinking that not that many people are going to

00:30:15.460 get angry thinking they got 10 cents off their gas or they could have gotten 25 most people who

00:30:19.700 don't follow politics that much are just going to say think I got 10 cents off my gas but this is

00:30:24.920 again why you should be running on things that you know your opponent will not do if you propose it

00:30:29.240 a massive across the board tax cut is what the Conservatives should do. I actually want the

00:30:34.820 finance minister sitting there, Francois Philippe Champagne. I think that Polyev needs to make one

00:30:40.300 of his next initiatives needs to be going after him for his conflict of interest in the Alto

00:30:46.460 train situation. They should also do what we've been doing at 1BC and calling out Liberal MP for

00:30:51.800 Vancouver Quadra, Wade Grant, for his massive conflict of interest as a former board member

00:30:57.680 of the council member of the Musqueam band, and also an advisor on indigenous affairs to Chrissy

00:31:04.280 Clark, and also a liberal MP, of course, that he didn't say anything to his constituents about the

00:31:08.840 Musqueam agreement that the liberals signed that have undermined the land title of both public and

00:31:14.640 private property in the area. Yes, you're not going to have your house repossessed, but now you are

00:31:19.160 sharing title, which is insane. Conservatives need to go after him, Francois-Philippe Champagne,

00:31:24.380 They need to go after corruption across the board, and Polyev needs to re-embrace his blacked-out roots. 0.65

00:31:30.440 If you remember that video where Polyev went out during the WE charity scandal and threw out all the papers that the liberals had blacked out because they didn't want people to see all of the obvious conflict of interest between the Trudeau family and the WE charity that the government was giving a billion dollars plus to.

00:31:50.500 I think it was actually more than that. It was at least hundreds of millions, if not a billion

00:31:54.160 dollars going to this charity for children's education that the Trudeaus were getting speaking

00:31:59.640 fees for. Polioff needs to do stuff like this again. Be theatrical. Politics is not backroom

00:32:06.940 drama. So many people in politics like to think of themselves as like, you know, what is they like

00:32:13.960 to think of themselves as a character in House of Cards or West Wing or even Veep. Politics isn't

00:32:19.320 veep west winger house of cards politics is opera at the end of the day and i know not a lot of

00:32:23.880 people watch opera but politics is big and epic and people want to vote for a hero who's going

00:32:29.780 to ascend the tower and kick the black knight off the top and i think that paul ev had that

00:32:34.860 but his advisors have kind of been telling him more so to kind of cultivate professionalism

00:32:42.300 cultivate seriousness in terms of how he carries himself and talks he would never do something like

00:32:48.260 this now, not because he wouldn't want to. I think he would love to do stuff like this.

00:32:51.880 And I think too much in the communications department has been around looking prime

00:32:55.740 ministerial. Be prime ministerial, look prime ministerial when you're the prime minister.

00:33:00.640 When you're not prime minister, go after the liberals like this, circa just five years ago

00:33:04.600 or so. We have here an email from Craig Kielberger to Bill Morneau. And, you know, we'd love to learn

00:33:13.280 about the attached documents in it but unfortunately and what is to become a trend throughout this

00:33:18.620 package it's all all the relevant information the two documents are completely blacked out

00:33:25.440 another email from craig keelberger that went to someone in the government the same day he spoke

00:33:31.840 to bill morneau on the phone but we don't know who received the email that's blacked out or what the

00:33:37.860 email said all blacked out here's an email from the minister responsible for the department that

00:33:44.620 granted the half billion dollars to her top bureaucrat again all the substance is backed

00:33:51.180 out blacked out and that would not be the first time next page blacked out this page blacked out

00:33:59.440 this page blacked out this page blacked out why don't we ask what's in those pages at a

00:34:07.800 parliamentary committee well i'll tell you why justin trudeau shut down those parliamentary

00:34:14.560 committees when did he do it the same day these documents became public do you know that right

00:34:21.080 now we have basically the same caliber of corruption issue going on right now with

00:34:25.940 Francois-Philippe Champagne, the Minister of Finance, and his wife, who is the Vice President

00:34:30.340 of Environment at Alto Trains, which is a crown company, they got a $90 billion,

00:34:37.780 they're getting $90 billion to build a train from Toronto to Quebec City that's only going

00:34:44.320 to have five stops, and they've already estimated that the cost could overrun all the way to $200

00:34:48.760 billion. And guess what? There was a committee meeting trying to get him to answer questions

00:34:54.960 about his conflict of interest, and the Liberals did move heaven and earth to make sure that

00:35:00.760 Francois-Philippe Champagne didn't have to actually testify. And the way that they got

00:35:05.200 away with it was they basically just ran out the clock, waited until the by-elections happened last

00:35:10.260 night, so they have a majority and they no longer actually have to force Francois-Philippe Champagne

00:35:15.460 to be summoned. That is something the Liberals actually did. Polyev could easily do this whole

00:35:21.240 routine again. Let's go through all the records of what he claimed that he had recused himself

00:35:25.340 when he had declared his conflict of interest. He could go through every single update of the

00:35:32.380 conflict of interest screenings that you can get and show for months, weeks and weeks and weeks

00:35:38.300 during the time that he said that he disclosed his conflict of interest, he had not done it.

00:35:42.920 this this is opera this is exciting this is heroic it's about good and evil corrupt and just and i

00:35:54.140 think this is what the conservatives need to go to not saying they're doing this a little bit wrong

00:35:58.840 or they're doing that wrong that this is evil or this is corruption or this is incompetence it

00:36:06.000 needs to be very everything needs to be hard-hitting and they need to follow up with the

00:36:09.800 punch of what they're going to do, and it needs to be epic in its scope of the amount of change

00:36:15.240 they need. But by the way, I actually like that Polyev is wearing a red tie here and a blue shirt.

00:36:20.260 I think too often these days, he wears a white shirt, dark navy suit, and a dark navy tie.

00:36:26.740 Now, lo and behold, I'm kind of wearing something like that, although I have stripes. I think

00:36:31.340 Polyev actually needs to kind of put a little more color into his outfits these days because

00:36:35.840 the media wants to paint a picture of him being dark, demure, stiff. You got to change your outfit

00:36:43.360 a little bit. I will personally take Pierre Polyev to my men's store of choice and have them get him

00:36:50.780 a new outfit. I think it actually would work. It would actually be helpful. Get a softer looking

00:36:56.140 haircut. Don't put too much, don't put product in your hair anymore. Let it flop around. He has great

00:37:01.120 hair right here. Maybe a little bit older than his age here than it should be. Whatever. Put

00:37:07.140 glasses back on. Glasses make you look a little dorky. That's sometimes a good thing in Canadian 0.63

00:37:11.500 politics. But now I'm just getting silly and doing my routine again about politicians and

00:37:16.380 how they look. But anyways, I'm going to be coming back and talking more about how Canadian

00:37:21.680 politics is developing. I'll be covering liberal scandals. I'll be covering things in British

00:37:25.200 Columbia. But a through line in a lot of my federal coverage will be basically sitting here

00:37:30.280 live being the advisor that

00:37:32.260 Polyev has not hired and telling him

00:37:34.280 what he should do. Steal my ideas

00:37:36.380 guys. You don't have to hire me.

00:37:38.420 You can pretend I am

00:37:39.840 corrupted with anthrax and you can't let me

00:37:42.320 into the building. But take

00:37:44.340 some of these ideas. Anyways,

00:37:46.560 so with all that being said, thank you guys

00:37:48.320 for watching and I'll see you all later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 15, 2026

Carney's Sham Majority – Time for Poilievre to Go on the Attack

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